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...Moody’s cut the company’s credit rating over the weekend to junk status, days after the lender disclosed it had replaced its chief executive and identified “material weaknesses” in internal controls that...
...Both Tesco and Sainsbury’s gained market share from Asda and Morrisons in the period, according to Moody’s....
...Moody’s also warned that the Redstone vehicle had an “untenable debt capital structure”. Its next payment of $37mn is due in March....
...Prospective wildfire payouts prompted S&P Global and Moody’s to downgrade PacifiCorp’s debt ratings last year....
...Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics urges against that interpretation....
...“The equity doesn’t pay debt service. It’s theoretical, not a pile of money there to be resourced,” as Christina Padgett, head of leveraged finance research at Moody’s, puts it....
...At the time, it accused Moody’s of having “biased and mistaken views”. Fitch does not have a rating on the conglomerate....
...Letter in response to this article: Overseas M&A forms backbone of Japan Inc / From Kiminori Yamaguchi, Tokyo, Japan...
...Democratic congresswoman Maxine Waters, who serves on the House financial services committee, wasn’t best pleased since there are still no federal rules on stablecoins....
...“We feel the UK water company debt we have insured has a strong credit profile, as it provides an essential public service and is in a well-regulated industry where we guarantee the senior level debt, all...
...Cedric Lai, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, said this month that funding access for privately owned developers in general “will remain restricted amid damped market confidence” as...
...“It’s an existential issue for them,” says Begley, of Moody’s....
...Craig Coben is a former global head of equity capital markets at Bank of America and now a managing director at Seda Experts, an expert witness firm specialising in financial services....
...A better deal for writers would cost media companies between $250mn and $350mn per year, according to Moody’s analyst Neil Begley, who warned that some weaker media companies “could see their credit suffer...
...According to Moody’s Investors Service, their combined banking assets represent 0.4 per cent of those of traditional banks....
...We are seeing a drought this year, which has hit S&P Global and Moody’s. In contrast, more boring businesses like consumer banking are surging with rising interest rates....
...Moody’s Investor Service said the talc ruling was a “credit negative” for J&J but would not affect its triple A rating....
...But markets will eventually tire of waiting. (Ethan Wu) One good read Ah, youth....
...Everyone should be suspicious of these proxy voting service agencies. ISS’s opinions are about as credible as those rendered by Moody’s, Standard & Poor’s and Fitch before the 2008 subprime crisis....
...On Monday, ICE Data Services said the debt of all entities blocked under UK, US or EU sanctions would be removed from its indices at the end of March....
...Since then, Athenahealth has uncovered $180m in cost reductions while continuing to increase revenue, according to Moody’s — generating extra profits that helped pay down some of the debt that the enlarged...
...It is seeking damages as well as an order stopping NSO from using any Apple software, device or services....
...Moody’s also upgraded Apple to triple-A in December, making it only the third triple-A company assessed by the rating agency alongside Microsoft and Johnson & Johnson....
...Shunsaku Sato, a senior credit officer at Moody’s Japan, said beyond the charge from legacy transactions in the US, Nomura’s earnings momentum appeared to be slowing....
...Still, Fitch Ratings and Moody’s Investors Service give the company very few “investable” ratings in the sector, while S&P Global Ratings maintains its junk rating....
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